Method for transmitting and negotiating network-controlled functional data between a client and a server

• US 8,775,592 B2
• Filed: 08/28/2009
• Issued: 07/08/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 09/08/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Deutsche Telekom AG
• Original Assignee: Deutsche Telekom AG
• Inventors: Dennert, Thomas
• Primary Examiner(s): Dharia, Rupal
• Assistant Examiner(s): MCKENZIE, MARCUS A
• Application Number:
  US13/061,840
• Publication Number:
  US 20110191623A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,775 Days
• Field of Search: 709/223
• US Class Current: 709/223
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2203/553 Data upload
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2203/554 Data synchronization
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/42153 by subscriber
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/42382 Text-based messaging services in telephone networks such as PSTN/ISDN, e.g. User-to-User Signalling or Short Message Service for fixed networks

Abstract

The invention relates to a method for transmitting control data in a telecommunication network for controlling a service administered by the telecommunication network, especially a server connected to the telecommunication network. According to said method, the telecommunication network provides a data object, especially a contact of an address book, with a function that is special with respect to other data objects. A parameterized message is transmitted by the terminal device for telecommunication via the telecommunication network to a higher order system component of the telecommunication network, said message comprising at least one first parameter for characterizing the data object and a second parameter containing a control information, especially for the activation, deactivation or modification of the service. The higher order system component checks at least one of the parameters and the service is controlled depending on the result of the check and in accordance with the control parameter.

Claims

1. A method of transmitting control data within a telecommunications network to control a service that is administered by the telecommunications network by a server connected to the telecommunications network, the method comprising the steps of:

supplying via the telecommunications network a special function to a specific data object relative to a contact of an address book,

transmitting a parameterized message by a terminal device for telecommunications through the telecommunications network to a higher-order system component of the telecommunications network,

including in the message at least a first parameter to identify the data object and a second control parameter with control information, to activate, deactivate, or modify the service,

checking with the higher-order system component at least one parameter,

controlling the service as a function of the result of the check in accordance with the control parameter,

checking the parameter(s) for plausibility;

checking if the control information of the second parameter corresponds to an order for the server responsible for administering the service,

checking the parameter(s) for errors,

checking whether the control information of the second control parameter matches an instruction that the server responsible for administering the service can understand, and

correcting an error when an error has been detected.

2. The method according to claim 1, further comprising the step of:

automatically completing a parameter.

3. The method according to claim 1, further comprising the step of:

checking the parameter(s) for service conformity.

4. The method according to claim 1, further comprising the step of:

checking the message to verify the completeness of the parameters.

5. The method according to claim 1, wherein the message contains multiple parameters, the method further comprising the step of

completing empty parameters of the parameter sets.

6. The method according to claim 1, further comprising the step, after receiving and checking the message, of:

transmitting a confirmation message back to the terminal device.

7. The method according to claim 1, further comprising the steps of:

transmitting a corrected message back to the terminal device in the case of an error correction, and/or a completed message is transmitted back to the terminal device in the case of automatic completion.

8. The method according to claim 1, wherein the service can be set up through an interface on the terminal device or through an Internet interface.

9. The method according to claim 1, further comprising the step of:

providing the Internet interface as a personalized Web portal for a user or an administrator having various rights.

10. The method according to claim 1, further comprising the step of:

linking two or more messages to each other to form a new parameterized message.

11. The method according to claim 1, further comprising the step of:

examining time-related, spatial, or fact-related conditions during the check.

12. The method according to claims 10, further comprising the steps of:

transmitting the new parameterized message to the terminal device, and

replacing the parameters contained in the message the parameters of the original messages.

13. The method according to claim 1, wherein the second parameter is a status parameter, the method further comprising step of

assigning to the status parameter by the terminal device a specific status parameter value whenever the service for the data object is to be activated, deactivated, or modified.

14. The method according to claim 1, further comprising the step of:

checking the message by the higher-order system component as to whether the service can be activated, deactivated, or modified for the data object.

15. The method according to claim 1, further comprising the steps, in the event of a positive check, of:

activating by the higher-order system component the service for the data object and

assigning to the status parameter a parameter value indicating the active status.

16. The method according to claim 1, further comprising the steps, in the event of a negative check, of:

deactivating by the system component the service for the data object,

assigning a parameter value indicating the inactive status to the control parameter, and

transmitting a message with the corrected status parameter back to the terminal device.

17. The method according to claim 1, further comprising the step of:

transmitting by the system component the message or the at least one parameter to be checked to the server that manages the service.